Digitizing the Brain

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Israel is part of an international team working on creating a digital reconstruction of the brain, and Weizmann Institute Professor Michal Schwartz was featured in Good Housekeeping magazine in an article that explains how the brain and the immune system communicate.

By: Michael Ordman

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Digitizing the brain

Professor Idan Segev of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is a member of the Blue Brain Project – an international team of scientists that is creating a digital reconstruction of the brain. It has just completed a first draft computer reconstruction of a piece of the neocortex and simulated its electrical behavior.http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

Boost your immune system for better health

The research of Weizmann Institute’s Professor Michal Schwartz was featured in Good Housekeeping magazine. The article explains how the brain and the immune system communicate.